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  • The Pakistani group that carried out the attacks, Lashkar-e-Taiba LeT, had, as we have seen, been officially banned in January 2002, but that did not prevent it from organizing the sixty-hour attack on Mumbai, much of it carried live by news channels around the world.

    The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

  • The Pakistani group that carried out the attacks, Lashkar-e-Taiba LeT, had, as we have seen, been officially banned in January 2002, but that did not prevent it from organizing the sixty-hour attack on Mumbai, much of it carried live by news channels around the world.

    The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

  • The Pakistani group that carried out the attacks, Lashkar-e-Taiba LeT, had, as we have seen, been officially banned in January 2002, but that did not prevent it from organizing the sixty-hour attack on Mumbai, much of it carried live by news channels around the world.

    The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

  • The Pakistani group that carried out the attacks, Lashkar-e-Taiba LeT, had, as we have seen, been officially banned in January 2002, but that did not prevent it from organizing the sixty-hour attack on Mumbai, much of it carried live by news channels around the world.

    The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

  • He is taking a shortcut through the back country, on the downside of a sixty-hour stretch of road that reaches from LA to Miami.

    Thirst No. 3 Christopher Pike 2010

  • When she organized a shop committee to protest working conditions and pay of three dollars for a sixty-hour week, she was fired.

    Bessie Abramowitz Hillman. 2009

  • That rhythmic life broke down, as it does for all physicians in training, when I entered the hospital and started pushing my body and mind beyond their limits with regular thirty-six-hour shifts on top of an occasional sixty-hour shift Friday morning to Monday evening!

    The UltraMind Solution M.D. Mark Hyman 2009

  • Or maybe even somebody who'd work the necessary sixty-hour weeks for only $1 million.

    Thom Hartmann: Profiling CEOs and Their Sociopathic Paychecks 2009

  • The same journalist who now has so many Facebookers starting a cult of hating her, in her reportage "even put her arm around a conservative Muslim man" (quote from FaceBook) during the sixty-hour media circus.

    Parvez Sharma: Bullets in Bollywood: No Eid For Me 2009

  • He hates trying to come up with a huge number of billable hours, which means, among other things, working sixty-hour weeks.

    Now What? Nicholas Lore 2008

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